This blog is dedicated to the best learning strategies for those who embrace being lifelong students way beyond the traditional classroom and who keep searching for key distinctions like the ones shared in this brilliant video. As the video suggests, learning is an active pursuit that requires focus and effort. If you direct your attention […]
When I wrote the first edition of my book, How To Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort, Personal computers were just coming to market and the Internet didn’t really exist. All we had were dial-up modems at 300 to 1200 baud to connect to mainframe computers… That was then and this […]
These are great study tips to help you get the best grades with the least amount of effort.
We all need to learn new things, for students they’re subjects in school and after graduation they’re concepts and constructs necessary for career development and progression. The previous post is a collection of strategies you need to review to complement the Feynman Technique explained below. The medical profession has a great motto for this technique: […]
This checklist is for textbooks, non-fiction books and/or technical reference manuals. A checklist to read a textbook properly Read the whole table of contents from top to bottom. Go to the back and read the glossary terms and the bibliography if there is one. Flip through each page of the book from start to finish, […]
There are countless websites and apps available to help you. Your success to learn what you missed in elementary, middle and high school now, as it did then, depends on you DOING the exercises and determining if their navigation systems get you through to the next stages effectively and of course if ANYTHING STICKS. In […]
No one can go back, but we all can make the MOST of what’s ahead. You need to learn ‘whatever it is’ on the first go because (1) you won’t have time later to learn it ‘again’ when you could have learned it on the first go because you’ll have other things to learn by […]
There are two types of people, those who LOVE and EMBRACE reading and those who DON’T LIKE to read and avoid it at all costs. The reason is the Mathew Effect: This is why learning to read is paramount and speed reading helps by either getting you through MORE material in the SAME amount of […]
In the video below, The Economist Magazine covers how technology could transform education post the COVID pandemic. It will be interesting to see what sticks versus what falls by the wayside. One of the challenges every student has is to optimise how to best study whether at home or back in school. There are proven […]
Teaching art to young students is rewarding because you see them have fun with their projects. Discover ways to teach this subject more effectively in class.
You’d think getting better grades means spending each hour of the day with your nose in your textbook. While adding hours to your daily study regimen might help, it’s not an ideal solution.
Are you having trouble concentrating while studying? These strategies can help.
Getting ahead in your career takes improving the skills you have to offer, and some of the most useful ways to do that are here for your perusal.
There are numerous distractions around that cause a decline in concentration among children. If you want your child to pay attention to school and other tasks, follow these tricks.
The pursuit of learning something new is commendable and frustrating. Keep these things in mind as you continue your education to lessen the frustrations.
School provides opportunities for you to develop the skills that you will need once you graduate and become a full-fledged adult. Here are the soft skills that you should have earned by now.
This video explains why Danica McKellar wrote her book “Math doesn’t suck”. I am now going to investigate her other books to determine if they can help people who struggle with math. Thank you Andrew Powell for sharing!
Some problems in life require you to be successful before you can deal with them. Here’s how great study habits let you get to that point.
